Front Matter -- Adoption in Context. Nature, Nurture and Narratives / David Howe -- How Tight Was the Seal? A Reappraisal of Adoption Records in the United States, England and New Zealand, 1851-1955 / E Wayne Carp -- From Bucharest to Beijing: Changes in Countries Sending Children for International Adoption 1990 to 2006 / Peter Selman -- The Ecology of Adoption / Jesus Palacios -- Research Perspectives. Children from Care can be Adopted / Ruth G McRoy, Courtney J Lynch, Amy Chanmugam, Elissa Madden, Susan Ayers-Lopez -- Understanding Links Between Birth Parents and the Child They Have Placed for Adoption: Clues for Assisting Adopting Families and for Reducing Genetic Risk? / David Reiss, Leslie D Leve, Amy L Whitesel -- Effects of Profound Early Institutional Deprivation: An Overview of Findings from a UK Longitudinal Study of Romanian Adoptees / Michael Rutter, Celia Beckett, Jenny Castle, Emma Colvert, Jana Kreppner, Mitul Mehta, Suzanne Stevens, Edmund Sonuga-Barke -- International Adoption Comes of Age: Development of International Adoptees from a Longitudinal and Meta-Analytical Perspective / Femmie Juffer, Marinus H van IJzendoorn -- Attachment Representations and Adoption Outcome: On the Use of Narrative Assessments to Track the Adaptation of Previously Maltreated Children in Their New Families / Miriam Steele, Jill Hodges, Jeanne Kaniuk, Howard Steele, Kay Asquith, Saul Hillman -- Adopted Adolescents: Who and What Are They Curious About? / Gretchen Miller Wrobel, Kristin Dillon -- Emerging Voices : Reflections on Adoption from the Birth Mother's Perspective / Ruth Kelly -- The Corresponding Experiences of Adoptive Parents and Birth Relatives in Open Adoptions / Elsbeth Neil -- Emotional Distance Regulation over the Life Course in Adoptive Kinship Networks / Harold D Grotevant -- Connecting Research to Practice / Gretchen Miller Wrobel, Elsbeth Neil -- Index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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